Tag: Poland

It’s been a long time since the last time when I could not manage to post anything between two Sunday Smacks, sorry about that. Amazingly enough, although I have even failed to mark yesterday’s International Mother Language Day, this post of mine from two years ago got very popular yesterday. Thanks to everybody for still keeping it in circulation! Now let’s see a couple of interesting posts from not so far back. The Budapest Memorandum and Beyond: Have the Western Parties Breached a Legal Obligation? The Ukrainian crisis looks even more troublesome when international treaty interpretation comes into play. The…

Wrapping up a very eventful week as always, here’s a few great posts for you to catch up with global news. Who is Invited to the Syria Peace Talks (And Who’s Not) A map of the invitees by BBC World with Mark Leon Goldberg’s smart comments on UNDispatch. Should He Stay or Should He Go? Assad’s Future Clouds Syria Talks Indeed this is the one question on which the parties’ views can’t seem to get even an inch closer. Burning Buses in Kyiv Last weekend the sparkles of protests fired up yet again even stronger than before in the Ukranian…

This week was so eventful world affairs news-wise that it was almost hard to pick but a few of my favorite blog posts. I tried my best though. On world affairs: A Rare Bit of Good News from Syria Shows What’s Possible When the International Community is United January 22 will be the next occasion for the Syrian government to prove how cooperative it is. CAR President: I’m Not Resigning! UPDATE: He Resigned! Whether this will bring any positive changes for the CAR is unclear. Hopefully it will. Iraq: on the brink of implosion? Ever worrysome news coming from Iraq, while…